Prof. Ho Teck-Hua

Prof. Ho Teck-Hua is the fifth president of NTU, Singapore, where he is a distinguished university professor. He is also the founding executive chairman of AI Singapore, president of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore and an academician of Academia Sinica.

Prof. Ho has a PhD in decision sciences from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining NTU, Prof. Ho was with the National University of Singapore, serving as senior deputy president and provost, and prior to that, deputy president (research and technology). Before returning to Singapore, he was the William Halford Jr Family Professor of Marketing at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business. In 2015, the Haas School presented him with the Williamson Award, the highest faculty award, named in honor of Oliver Williamson, recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Prof. Ho was the first awardee of the Singapore National Research Foundation’s Returning Singaporean Scientists Scheme and the first non-US citizen to be editor-in-chief of Management Science. In Singapore, Prof. Ho sits on the boards of DSO National Laboratories, the Government Technology Agency and the National Research Foundation. In 2023, he was awarded the Singapore Public Administration Medal (Gold).